Vin Osbaldeston knows just how vital a strong senior leadership team is to a school’s long-term success.
When he became head of Freshfield Primary in Formby near Liverpool – a school he later led as an executive headteacher – it was, in his estimation, “coasting”.
The situation was in large part due to the previous stewardship of a head who was very operational in their approach, together with a senior leadership team that was made up of good, well-meaning people who were only carrying out low-level management responsibilities with little focus on school improvement, explained Ms Osbaldeston, who now works as a consultant supporting primary school leadership teams.
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